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| Personal background |
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Hello!
This is just another freak sitting in front of some computer who tries to upgrade it as often as possible with his spare money (not much, actually :] )
I, born in 1976, am a student of computer science (in Bremen, Germany).
This is at least not very surprising as I got my first computer at the age of 6, as far as I can remember ... It was a Commodore 64, that I am sure of :)
So I started to play around with it, learned english (I am german, did I mention? Yes, I did ;] ) and learned to do something "useful" while trying the BASIC programming language.
Some time later I got my mom to buy me one of the brand new (and best [at least that time]) AMiGA 2000, with which I could play better games and learn better programming languages (PASCAL mainly).
But while I was thinking about my further life, I got a job (coding Visual Basic), and a PC (Pentium 166). So I started to migrate to the PC, and now I have reached a Pentium III 700MHz running smoothly at 933MHz. This and some other machines (my DSL router for example) are working hard to supply SETI@home with results derived from these strange packets berkeley keeps sending them :)
So, have fun and contact me if you want to share some thoughts (english and german would be fine, but I try my best to answer other languages) contact me at C.RAZY@CCS-DeeSANE.DE or my SETI@home email addy.
I hope I did not pass the 2000 chars, but I am not willing to count now :)
See ya! C.RAZY |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I like SETI@home, because I believe if one of "us" is finding extraterrestrial life, the word will be spread and not just told to the military and kept behind some locked doors below some bunkers. I hope we (this time "we" is mankind) will find extraterrestrial life and both we and them will be friendly and learn from each other. This could be an advance for both civilizations, not just scientific or militaristic or about some new chemicals/materials, but an advance in learning how we can think about life, the universe and all the rest :) I think many people think one-sided only, and finding other life (in what form ever) could change their thinking and make them more open to other kinds of perception. Yes, I think extraterrestrial life exists, and just because I cannot believe that we are the only ones. The universe is so big and has so many different forms of energy a lifeform could survive with. And I think it was good to send some beacon with information about our planet, our lifeforms and such, because if some other lifeform exists, it is possible that we just weren't able to detect it by now, but now the chance exists that it detects us. Not that we have been "quiet" by now, but this is another chance to be found. It would be good to send a beacon in every direction of space, whether with the same information or some changes to one or the other, to enhance these chances. Personally I run SETI@home to help science, but I do not think I will be "the one" to find E.T., if it happens, I would be glad, but most of us are helping by sorting out the wrong patterns. I am totally happy with how SETI@home runs, and I spent much time with explaining the screensaver to my curious friends, some of them are running it now, too :)
My only suggestion: I would like to be able to change the "founder" of a group, because our group was founded by a rather inactive member, so getting him to change something does take time ... he agrees to the change, but I haven't found a way to do it. All other is fine, I like the statistics |
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